# Judaism · The Canon · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow

Source: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/atlas/library/canon/judaism/ · The Congregation of Tomorrow · the Atlas · language: en
The same words a person sees on this page, nothing more and nothing hidden.
Our own words are free to use under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), naming the Congregation of Tomorrow. Words of others keep their own terms.
Every page of the site, listed: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/pages.json · the whole site in one file: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/llms-full.txt

← The Canon: all 125
The Canon · No. 014
Judaism
Yahadut; the religion of Israel
c.1200 BCE (emergence) – present · Abrahamic · Living · Israel, Europe, North America, worldwide
III. THE AXIAL AGE — c.900 – 200 BCE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.1200 BCE Israelite settlements appear in the Canaanite highlands; the Merneptah Stele (c.1208 BCE) gives the earliest extrabiblical mention of Israel.
- c.1000 BCE Traditional dates for David and Solomon; the scale of the united monarchy is archaeologically contested.
- 722 BCE Assyria destroys the northern kingdom of Israel.
- c.622 BCE Josiah's reform centralises worship in Jerusalem and suppresses local shrines.
- 587/586 BCE Babylon destroys the First Temple; the exile begins. Under exile the religion reorganises around text, sabbath and circumcision rather than sacrifice.
- 538 BCE Cyrus permits return; Second Temple built.
- 167–160 BCE Maccabean revolt against Antiochus IV; Hanukkah.
- 70 CE Rome destroys the Second Temple. Sacrifice ends permanently. Yohanan ben Zakkai's academy at Yavneh converts Judaism into a religion of study and prayer — the pivot that lets it survive.
- c.200 CE Mishnah compiled by Judah ha-Nasi.
- c.500 CE Babylonian Talmud completed.
- 1096, 1290, 1391, 1492 Rhineland massacres; expulsion from England; Spanish massacres; expulsion from Spain.
- 1648–49 Khmelnytsky massacres in Ukraine.
- 1700s Hasidism begins with the Baal Shem Tov; the Vilna Gaon leads the Mitnagdim against it.
- 1810s–1840s Reform Judaism in Germany; Orthodox and later Conservative Judaism form in response.
- 1897 First Zionist Congress, Basel.
- 1939–1945 The Holocaust. Approximately six million Jews murdered — around two-thirds of European Jewry, and about a third of all Jews alive.
- 1948 State of Israel founded.
- 1972 Sally Priesand ordained as the first American woman rabbi (Reform).
### Sources
Not yet checked against named sources. This entry is the house's reading; until it is checked, treat each claim as unverified. Correct it, with a source.
The Atlas The Door